A new environmental dependence upon the embedded atom method was considered. This environmental dependence was proposed for screening effects upon the tight-binding parameters. The calculated grain-boundary energies, of 4 typical [110] tilt boundaries having small Σ-values, were very close to the experimental values.

Grain Boundary Energies of Al Simulated by Environment-Dependent Embedded Atom Method. S.R.Nishitani, S.Ohgushi, Y.Inoue, H.Adachi: Materials Science and Engineering A, 2001, 309-310, 490–4